Ultra-elastic cgras for irregular loop specialization

C Torng, P Pan, Y Ou, C Tan… - 2021 IEEE International …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reconfigurable accelerator fabrics, including coarse-grain reconfigurable arrays (CGRAs),
have experienced a resurgence in interest because they allow fast-paced software algorithm …

X-CGRA: An energy-efficient approximate coarse-grained reconfigurable architecture

O Akbari, M Kamal, A Afzali-Kusha… - … on Computer-Aided …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, we present an energy-efficient approximate CGRA (X-CGRA). Instead of
conventional exact arithmetic units, it employs configurable approximate adders and …

PX-CGRA: Polymorphic approximate coarse-grained reconfigurable architecture

O Akbari, M Kamal, A Afzali-Kusha… - … , Automation & Test …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Architectures (CGRAs) provide tradeoff between the energy-
efficiency of Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) and the flexibility of General …

A fast algorithm for ICP-based 3D shape biometrics

P Yan, KW Bowyer - Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 2007 - Elsevier
In a biometrics scenario, gallery images are enrolled into the database ahead of the
matching step, which gives us the opportunity to build related data structures before the …

SC-CGRA: An Energy-Efficient CGRA Using Stochastic Computing

D Mou, B Wang, D Liu - IEEE Transactions on Parallel and …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Stochastic Computing (SC) offers a promising computing paradigm for low-power and cost-
effective applications, with the added advantage of high error tolerance. In parallel, Coarse …

Energy-aware-task-parallelism for efficient dynamic voltage, and frequency scaling, in cgras

SMAH Jafri, MA Tajammul, A Hemani… - 2013 International …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Today, coarse grained reconfigurable architectures (CGRAs) host multiple applications, with
arbitrary communication and computation patterns. Each application itself is composed of …

Refresh triggered computation: Improving the energy efficiency of convolutional neural network accelerators

SMAH Jafri, H Hassan, A Hemani, O Mutlu - ACM Transactions on …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
To employ a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) in an energy-constrained embedded
system, it is critical for the CNN implementation to be highly energy efficient. Many recent …

Synchoricity and NOCs could make billion gate custom hardware centric SOCs affordable

A Hemani, SMAH Jafri, S Masoumian - Proceedings of the Eleventh …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
In this paper, we present a novel synchoros VLSI design scheme that discretizes space
uniformly. Synchoros derives from the Greek word chóros for space. We propose raising the …

Evaluation of CGRA architecture for real-time processing of biological signals on wearable devices

J Lopes, D Sousa, JC Ferreira - 2017 International Conference …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper describes the design and implementation of a coarse-grained reconfigurable
array (CGRA) for low-power biological signal processing. It uses an use-case-driven …

Improving Energy Efficiency of CGRAs with Low-Overhead Fine-Grained Power Domains

A Nayak, K Zhang, R Setaluri, A Carsello… - ACM Transactions on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
To effectively minimize static power for a wide range of applications, power domains for
coarse-grained reconfigurable array (CGRA) architectures need to be more fine-grained …